“If
I get ahead of myself or start doing other things, or if I start listening to things, read papers or whatever, maybe that can affect you.

“But at the end of the day I’m a Birmingham City football player until told otherwise.

“Thursday,
for me, was just a normal day. I went to [children’s indoor play area] Tiny Terrorz with my kids, went home, had my dinner, put them to bed and went to sleep.”

Burke didn’t view Jim White getting into his usual state of excitement on transfer window deadline day as the clock ticked down to 11pm.“I didn’t watch it,” said Burke. “I see so much of football and play so much, it’s
usually Nickleodeon that’s on my TV, not Sky Sports, trust me.

“Obviously
there was going to be speculation but, for me, I’m not here to talk about that. It would be unprofessional of me to do that as well.

“I was a Birmingham City player and I’m still a Birmingham City player. No change there.

“For me, the performances and being professional, it’s the same wherever you are.”

Blues are at Charlton on Saturday and Burke said they aimed to make it a happy Valley.

“We have been underachieving. I think everyone in the changing room would say that,’’ he added.

“It’s
the first time we have had back-to-back victories and that is not good enough from our point of view, that it has just happened now.

“We have to be consistent and consistency goes a long way in the Championship.

“We are starting to move up but we have to keep doing that.

“We have to keep pushing now and not just accept where we are in the table.”

Now
the transfer window has shut, Blues have held on to their best talents like Burke and added Wes Thomas, there is no uncertainty. No distractions. All can look forward.

Burke insisted it hadn’t been a problem before.

“Our changing room has been the same since day one, if I’m honest,’’ he said.

“That’s down to how the manager, the coaching staff and everybody handles it.

“The manager sticks with us, the coaching staff stick with us and it has been the same since the window opened.

“Us
as players just strive to get victories and I think we know we have been underachieving with the squad we have got and we have to pick up on
that and be consistent.

“We
have to get a run going and hopefully that’s what we can do against Charlton – our away form has been pretty good, so hopefully we can continue that.”